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> The API was abandoned months or years ago but they were still taking people's money for it.

So, you put months of work into a project, using an API that you knew was abandoned? And it's anybody's fault other than you own?

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There was no way of knowing it was abandoned. I am taking a guess at the length of time ago it happened; my guess is informed by lack of quality of service and public-facing updates. It's reasonable to assume that the API degraded in quality over time as fewer and fewer / maybe no people were working on it.

I think it happened around May/June/July ish of this year. I remember creating a free acct using the free tier API for a coding project I did for an interview around April. Shortly after they killed the free access and I guess now it is totally dead :(

I think it's more that they abandoned the API, didn't tell anyone that they were doing that, and still took people's money.

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